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Range of offers received for Kilrymont campus as construction of new Madras College building in St Andrews continues © D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. Fife Council is preparing to sell Madras College’s Kilrymont campus after receiving a number of offers. The local authority described it as a rare opportunity to acquire a significant development site in a residential area of St Andrews. Madras College at Kilrymont. The council received a range of offers as a result. The sale of the 15.5 acre site in...

© SNS Group Dundee striker Danny Mullen hopes his supersub appearance at Morton has done enough to earn him a start against Inverness on Tuesday night. The frontman came off the bench for the last half-hour at Cappielow, set up a goal for Jason Cummings, hit the post and then scored an 80 th-minute equaliser to earn a point for his side. However, he wasn’t able to jolt the Dark Blues out of their winless run as the 2-2 draw in Greenock made it four Championship matches without victory. Going...

Students suffering hardship could be eligible for discretionary payment Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Students in Fife facing financial difficulty during the pandemic could be eligible for new funding support. The Scottish Funding Council has this week made an additional £3m provided by by the Scottish Government available to colleges across Scotland to support students, topping up the £5m already provide...

Three drivers were fined for speeding and one caught allegedly drink and drug driving in a police operation in Nigg and Torry.

by Readers Letters Updated: 01/03/2021, 11:44 am © Shutterstock / bymandesigns As Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Scotland launch their manifesto for the 2021 Scottish elections, it is clear there is a long way to go to protect and improve lung health in Scotland. The number of respiratory deaths in Scotland has not decreased at all in the lifetime of the Scottish Parliament, in fact increasing by 2%. Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Scotland are calling for candidates to pled...

Anas Sarwar: New Scottish Labour leader backs suspended Aberdeen nine Updated: 01/03/2021, 9:41 am © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd New Scottish Labour Anas Sarwar has appeared to back the nine suspended Aberdeen councillors. The Glasgow MSP appeared on Good Morning Scotland and revealed that he thought of the group as “not former Labour colleagues, I regard them as Labour colleagues.” The nine councillors were suspended from the Labour party after forming an administration with the Conservatives in...

Five vehicles destroyed in blaze at Council depot in Fife © Supplied by Chris Brown Several vehicles used to transport elderly and vulnerable people around Fife have been destroyed in a blaze at a council depot. Fire crews raced to the scene at the council’s facility in Halbeath Industrial Estate shortly after 8.30pm on Friday after reports of several vehicles on fire within the fenced off compound. Flames could be seen coming from the yard, which acts as storage base for much of the local a...

Updated: March 1, 2021, 6:24 pm © Supplied by MasterChef/Plank PR It wasn’t until Ross Smyth picked up his phone to the team at MasterChef that he realised he was in for the experience of a lifetime… The owner of a busy fiberglass manufacturing firm, 58-year-old businessman, Ross Smyth, didn’t think life could get any busier. That was until he received a random call from the team at MasterChef earlier last year telling him he had made it onto the 17th series. Continue Reading Log in or s...

Updated: 01/03/2021, 1:56 pm © Supplied by AFC Community Trust Kind-hearted Dons fans and the Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust have helped boost the morale of a teenager struggling during lockdown. Fifteen-year-old Keiran Cheyne, who suffers from anxiety, has found the latest lockdown tough. His Aberdeen City Council social worker, a Dons fan, mentioned his plight to a few other fans who immediately rallied round to help the family. They got in touch with AFC Community Trust who organise...

The three individuals who flew into Aberdeen and tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid went straight into quarantine together on their arrival.